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Plane functions

Applications

Planarity control: The ZMap after orientation is directly a measure of planarity. In addition, the function distanceToPlane could be use to get more accurate results

Control angles between several planes: When the plane equation is known, a simple dot product can be used to compute the angle between two different planes.

Align ZMap to Z axis to combine with 2D tools

Four functions related to 3D planes can be applied:

Build a plane from Three Points

Fit a plane from COP data

Compute the distance between a point and a plane

Get the movement to align a given plane parallel to Z plane

When applying 2D measures to a ZMAP, perspective distortion can be introduced because of the object position. By aligning the plane to the Z axis this distortion is removed. In the images below an example of a circular hole is shown. Before alignment, the hole appears as an ellipse. On the right image, after alignment it is perfectly circular allowing correct 2D measures.

COP

Generated ZMap (without alignment)

Generated ZMap (after cop orientation)

Sphere Functions

Fit a Sphere on a list of points: This function determines the radius and the center of a sphere that best fits the list of points assuming that all points belong to the sphere.